Amazon has lowered the outbound data transfer rates of its Amazon Web Services (AWS) portfolio, an early sign of a price war about to erupt with Microsoft Windows Azure.

Three hyperscalers (AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud), the Cloud Price Index usually tracks about 80,000 new SKU additions each month.

The Crown Commercial Service’s (CCS) decision to increase its cloud hosting spend with Amazon Web Services (AWS) mid-contract by 89% is under scrutiny from procurement professionals.